Andrew Ireland is the associate dean for undergraduate students in the Media School of the United Kingdom's Bournemouth University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction-Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND)

PART I: Narrative and Torchwood
One - Playing to the Crowd: Torchwood Knows We're Watching

(ANDREW IRELAND)
Two - Existentialism and Christian Symbolism

(R. C. NEIGHBORS)
Three - Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny

(SUSAN J. WOLFE and COURTNEY HUSE WIKA)
Four - Touching the Other: Alien Contact and Transgressive Touch

(RIA CHEYNE)
Five - More Than Just a Hero's Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness

(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)
Six - Screwing Aliens and Screwing with Aliens: Torchwood Slashes the Doctor

(RICHARD BERGER)

PART II: Character and Torchwood
Seven - The Eternal Vigil: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero

(G. TODD DAVIS)
Eight - Gwen's Evil Stepmother: Concerning Gloves and Magic Slippers

(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)
Nine - Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of Gothic Aesthetics?

(DANIEL J. RAWCLIFFE)
Ten - The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental

(CARRIE DUNN)
Eleven - Outside the Heroic Paradigm

(TOM POWERS)

PART III: Sexuality and Torchwood
Twelve - "Love the coat": Bisexuality, the Female Gaze and the Romance of Sexual Politics

(CHRISTOPHER PULLEN)
Thirteen - Fashioning Masculinity and Desire

(SARAH GILLIGAN)
Fourteen - Sexual Relations and Sexual Identity Issues: Brave New Worlds or More of the Old One?

(SHERRY GINN)
Fifteen - "Loving the Alien": The Erotics of Technology

(PAUL WINTERS)
Sixteen - Cyberwomen and Sleepers: Rereading the Mulatta Cyborg and the Black Woman's Body

(ELSPETH KYDD)
Seventeen - No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual Penetration

(CARRIE DUNN)
Eighteen - Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction Heroics of Captain Jack

(LEE BARRON)

Episode Guide
About the Contributors
Index